Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. APriming
2. BProactive interference
3. CMetacognition
4. DHabituation

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BConsolidation
3. CElaborative rehearsal
4. DChunking

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. AProactive interference
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CRepression
4. DDecay

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

1. ADesigning a pleasant garden
2. BFinding the sum of two numbers
3. CSolving an anagram
4. DCompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle

People recall more words from a list of short words (e.g. "cat, sun") than from a list of long words. The usual explanation is that:

1. AShort words are held in iconic memory as well as acoustically
2. BLong words are processed more deeply and so crowd each other out
3. CShort words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
4. DLong words cause retroactive interference with earlier items

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. ADissociative amnesia
2. BRetrograde amnesia
3. CInfantile amnesia
4. DAnterograde amnesia

In a city, 85% of cabs are green and 15% are blue. A witness who is correct 80% of the time says the cab in an accident was blue. What is the probability it really was blue?

1. AAbout 80%
2. BAbout 15%
3. CAbout 68%
4. DAbout 41%

Choosing the first flat that meets your minimum requirements, rather than comparing every flat available, is what Herbert Simon called:

1. AMaximising
2. BSatisficing
3. CMeans–end analysis
4. DAnchoring